{"id":4305,"date":"2006-01-04T18:52:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T22:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/01\/04\/snow-lang-syne\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:16","slug":"snow-lang-syne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/01\/04\/snow-lang-syne\/","title":{"rendered":"snow lang syne"},"content":{"rendered":"

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scotch mints —
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heavy clouds<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a silent magpie<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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flies across the valley<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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snowmelt<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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he changes into play clothes<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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after school<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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snowy day
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DeVar Dahl<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A> <\/DIV>
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“empty swallows nest” from A Piece of Egg Shell<\/EM><\/STRONG> (2004)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“heavy clouds” from HSA Members’ Anthology<\/EM> (2003)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“snowmelt” – Walking the Same Path: HSA Mem Anthology 2004<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“snowy day” – <\/FONT>the shiki haiku prize contest<\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV>
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“<\/FONT>scotch mints<\/FONT><\/A>” – <\/FONT>The Heron’s Nest<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> (June 2005)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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give her a hand —<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a perfect<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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snow angel<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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potluck<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  Jacob A. Stein’s column in the newest Washington Lawyer<\/EM>  “eMC2G”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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I learned the art of procrastination in the best school there is—<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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practicing law. There is no better place. Lawyers do it. Judges do it. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Even law professors up at Yale do it.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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If nothing else gets done around here today (a very good possibility), we’re going to make sure you enjoy a handful of haiku from DeVar Dahl.     scotch mints —the squeak of my walking stickin packed snow                 heavy clouds the snowplows’ rumble drifts into town   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-17r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12843,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/12843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}